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New German Critique (2019) 46 (3 (138)): 207–233.
Published: 01 November 2019
...Eric Rentschler Abstract The film essays Verfluchte Liebe deutscher Film (2016) and Offene Wunde deutscher Film (2017), coscripted and codirected by Dominik Graf and Johannes F. Sievert, survey the postwar history of genre cinema in the Federal Republic of Germany and take stock of the present...
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (2 (149)): 9–35.
Published: 01 August 2023
... of comparison for his later and better-known works, especially in Soul and Form (1911), The Theory of the Novel (1916), and History and Class Consciousness (1923). This framework can reconnect Lukács’s early theory of literary genres to contemporary debates on form in literature, epistemology, and political...
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New German Critique (2012) 39 (3 (117)): 165–187.
Published: 01 November 2012
..., matrix for rethinking the “incomprehensible” in Holocaust representations along a spectrum of genres from memoir and poetry to documentary history. In the wake of emerging research on the “language situation” in the camps, Gramling explores texts that reanimate the multiple-language milieus of camp life...
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New German Critique (2013) 40 (3 (120)): 1–40.
Published: 01 November 2013
...Michael Cowan The Querschnittfilm (cross-section film) has long been recognized as a documentary genre appropriate to mass society that uses montage, not the narrative development of individual characters, to compare various people and phenomena. But the term and concept of Querschnitt had both...
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New German Critique (2013) 40 (3 (120)): 171–191.
Published: 01 November 2013
... films, however, they offer an alternative social imaginary for life in Hamburg and Berlin. Akin relies on hybrid genre conventions to produce a comedic new Heimatfilm , while Turanskyj deploys an unemployed architect as skeptical flaneuse for a more tragic investigation. Both films critically represent...
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New German Critique (2014) 41 (3 (123)): 199–218.
Published: 01 November 2014
...John Zilcosky Hermann Hesse's readers associate him with the “East” yet generally ignore his earliest writing on the topic: the mixed-genre masterpiece about India, Robert Aghion (1913). I argue that Aghion is a sophisticated critique of colonialism in which no one is innocent, not even...
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New German Critique (2017) 44 (3 (132)): 5–20.
Published: 01 November 2017
... the Cold War. This article I proposes to conceive of theory as a genre, that is, as an institution controlling the production, dissemination, and reception of texts. Drawing on the archives of the leading West German theory publishers Suhrkamp and Merve, the article follows the policies and strategies...
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New German Critique (2019) 46 (3 (138)): 11–34.
Published: 01 November 2019
... such as community and home in an age of transnationalism and globalism. Focusing on two productions that self-consciously redeploy the western’s legacy, Thomas Bidegain’s Les Cowboys (2015) and Valeska Grisebach’s Western (2017), as well as some related examples, this article scrutinizes the myths of the genre...
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New German Critique (2020) 47 (1 (139)): 25–56.
Published: 01 February 2020
... with Oskar Negt, this article analyzes not only various forms of questions posed in these genres but also the epistemological dimension of questioning. This perspective reveals how a Marxian model of writing becomes the point of departure for Kluge’s work on artistic method. It demonstrates that his...
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (2 (149)): 37–48.
Published: 01 August 2023
... convictions. For example, his criticism of mixing genres disappears in his identification of Faust ’s peculiar form as an “epic-dramatic form” said to approximate the elusive epical poem. But as such, it is also the paradoxical manifestation of a singular form without predecessors or followers. The essay...
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New German Critique (2022) 49 (2 (146)): 133–160.
Published: 01 August 2022
... and a critical dialogue with commentaries on both the mountain film and discussions of Maddin’s oeuvre. Putting to use transnational perspectives, this analysis of a Canadian director’s appropriation of a hallmark German genre problematizes previous constructions of national identity and national cinema as well...
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New German Critique (2015) 42 (3 (126)): 91–114.
Published: 01 November 2015
...Jaimey Fisher The article considers the 1950s revival of perhaps the best-known and most influential genre of Weimar cinema, namely, what is now termed “horror” (at the time, better known as the Gruselfilm ). The article investigates how there are deliberate, often narratively central citations...
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New German Critique (2019) 46 (3 (138)): 181–205.
Published: 01 November 2019
... Dominik Graf German film essay film city film urban history “I take the genre as ground plan, but then I build upon it a different house.” 1 With these simple words Dominik Graf, one of the most prolific filmmakers in Germany, characterizes a crucial aspect of his cinematic practice...
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New German Critique (2018) 45 (3 (135)): 155–174.
Published: 01 November 2018
... in the genre of satire. Lukács even regards expressions of negative affects as one of satire’s distinctive traits. In the merciless satires of the revolutionary class, he argues, implacable hatred of bourgeois society is given expressive shape and achieves a mobilizing effect. The association of satire...
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (2 (149)): 1–8.
Published: 01 August 2023
... Four essays in this special section of New German Critique investigate Lukács’s notion of form. Eva Geulen and Kirk Wetters each focus on Lukács as a theorist of literary genre. Within literary theory, the German word Form also means genre ( Gattung ), and it is not by chance that Lukács’s early...
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New German Critique (2022) 49 (1 (145)): 163–183.
Published: 01 February 2022
... of these reoccupations is that one of its earliest variations caused a permanent change of the story’s genre from fable to anecdote. Consequentially, Blumenberg begins his article by retelling the story in the oldest version drawn from the Aesopic corpus of fables. Consistent with their genre, no names are assigned...
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (3 (150)): 133–148.
Published: 01 November 2023
...? 8 Such an approach easily leads to essentialist readings of both “German” and “film” that reinforce normative ideas of nativism, of culture and citizenship, and exclude a diversity of film genres and medial constellations. Moreover, it rarely leaves space for reflection on what it means to study...
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New German Critique (2014) 41 (2 (122)): 171–188.
Published: 01 August 2014
... as the first global vernacu- lar, whether it is understood as a matter of style, genre, or a set of aesthetic codes, the vernacular tracks the aesthetic along the structural axis, a structure flexible enough to sustain articulations of experience while making it available to cultural circulation...
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New German Critique (2020) 47 (3 (141)): 33–44.
Published: 01 November 2020
... all genre films of American vintage: Green Card , Dances with Wolves , Russia House , and The Silence of the Lambs . “One film better than the next,” he says to Karmakar, “in fact, the best ones of the entire film festival.” Contrary to Kilb’s snarky assertion, there was in fact a group...
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New German Critique (2012) 39 (1 (115)): 27–48.
Published: 01 February 2012
... foregrounded the surprising ways that his work corresponds to discussions on cosmopolitanism in general and to con- ceptualizations of place within cultural geography in particular.15 Von Moltke’s study No Place like Home focuses on visual representa- tions of Heimat in the popular genre Heimatfilm...